#frailty

Here I am with the final part of September’s themed week in “Lyrical Love”! The subject is a song of the visual kei band Dexcore, precisely Brain Washing, the lead-track of the same name single came out on 14th November 2018. The song summarizes all the band’s key features, going from a technical and aggressive sound to direct words, expressing raging feelings in the best way possible.

THE MUSIC

The song starts with crystalline notes, leading up to an heavy and highly paced metal theme, showing off an incredible technique; Kagami’s vocals are aggressive at maximum, featuring also clear notes in the refrain, a proof of his fascinating versatility; a complex and astonishing track, where the articulated breakdown represents something unusual and hard to forget.

Lyrics (Romaji)

Is that how you really feel?
Do you want to see someone smiling when you are tricking yourself?
You have lots a fucking words that someone used lined up in front of you
And you listen to those words with no doubt
and the venue is filled up with irritated sweat and mother fucking tears
Remove it before I drawn
I got a problem with the fucking world like that

Pushing my self down to get famous
Brain washed by others to get famous
Sing for the fame
You are already done at the time you are saying that you want to be famous

Appropriate words
soko ni wa nani mo umare wa shinai
kibou mo namida mo itami mo

Is that how you really feel?
Do you want to see someone smiling when you are tricking yourself?
You have lots a fucking words that someone used lined up in front of you
And you listen to those words with no doubt
and the venue is filled up with irritated sweat and mother fucking tears

This is not the world I wanted

Appropriate words
soko ni wa nani mo umare wa shinai
kibou mo namida mo itami mo

nagashite hontou no namida o
kikasete hontou no koe o
“koko” de misete

Welcome to my mother fucking heart
Probably you won’t fell anything
Your basically brain washed

Don’t fucking disturb me

Appropriate words
soko ni wa nani mo umare wa shinai
kibou mo namida mo itami mo

This world makes me sad
kowashite
Dope people disappears and shitty people grows

This is not the fucking world I wanted
This is not the music I wanted

Lyrics (Translation)

Is that how you really feel?
Do you want to see someone smiling when you are tricking yourself?
You have lots a fucking words that someone used lined up in front of you
And you listen to those words with no doubt
and the venue is filled up with irritated sweat and mother fucking tears
Remove it before I drawn
I got a problem with the fucking world like that  (I)

Pushing my self down to get famous
Brain washed by others to get famous
Sing for the fame
You are already done at the time you are saying that you want to be famous 

Appropriate words
Nothing is born there
Either hope, tears or pain (II)

Is that how you really feel?
Do you want to see someone smiling when you are tricking yourself?
You have lots a fucking words that someone used lined up in front of you
And you listen to those words with no doubt
and the venue is filled up with irritated sweat and mother fucking tears

This is not the world I wanted

Appropriate words
Nothing is born there
Either hope, tears or pain (III)

True tears are shed
A true voice is heard
Show me “here”

Welcome to my mother fucking heart
Probably you won’t fell anything
Your basically brain washed

Don’t fucking disturb me 

Appropriate words
Nothing is born there
Either hope, tears or pain

This world makes me sad
Breaking
Dope people disappears and shitty people grows

This is not the fucking world I wanted
This is not the music I wanted (IV)

THE WORDS

Written by the singer Kagami, the text is pretty simple to follow, especially thanks to the massive use of English, one of Dexcore’s peculiarites, and to a plain layout. The single where it released deals with the common theme of discomfort for the world where we live in, reflected indeed in the language used for each track. The two b-sides, Hey!! CockroachesandNaked, deal respectively with the rottenness of human soulandthe necessity of expressing ourselves, rendered with the act of screaming, making them strictly linked with the lead-track’s subject. It deals with the mind being the frailest part of a person, which can be easily influenced by words and images, often carrying a mistaken meaning or leading to a wrong purpose or thought. The manipulation of human mind leads unavoidably to the erasure of any authentic feeling and to a constant and meaningless searching for the fame, a vain concept for itself, which is linked to the music world, which sees this dark concept in action. And now… let’s analyze the song!

I) The text starts with the author who is asking to the reader if his feelings are properly real, trying to see someone smiling, while he is deceiving himself; in his mind there are a lot of words, disposed by other people, which he listens to without any doubt, making his world full of fatigue and sadness, so he invites him to leave that world before he is drown into it.

II) The author admits to have gotten too far only for the fame, aware that his brain is actually manipulated by other people for that purpose (there’s a sure reference to Kagami’s personal life); he says that fame brings to the end of life and so he invites the reader to not follow that path, since nothing comes, good or bad, from those aligned words by others ( Appropriate words/soko ni wa nani mo umare wa shinai/kibou mo namida mo itami mo,not by case, this part has two lines written in Japanese).

III) After the repetition of the first sequence, the protagonist says that he doesn’t want a world made of deception and manipulation, and then the sequence ends with the repetition of the second part.

IV)In the final sequence, the author says that tears have started to flow, fulfilled by truth, along with a voice, made in the same manner (nagashite hontou no namida o/kikasete hontou no koe o), so he asks to the reader to show him everything he has in that distorted world (“koko” de misete). The author decides to accept it in his heart, but he is aware that he won’t feel anything, because of the manipulation he’s getting, so he screams to not being disturbed. Following a repetition of the second sequence, the author says that the world where he lives is making him sad, because of its contradictions, such as the bad people living more than the “dream-doped” ones, ending the text with the desire of not hearing the music of this cruel world anymore.

The most important thing for an human being is his/her identity, unique and personal, which is often attacked by manipulation and distorted realities. Dexcore talk directly with each one of us, expressing the cruelty of a rotten and deceiving world, where nothing is as it seems and the individuality is becoming rarer.

That’s all folks! See you with a new review in “Let’s Listen to”!

Thanks for the reading!

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